Ksenia Yurkova

Ksenia Yurkova is an artist living in Vienna. She works primarily with photography, video and text. The main focus of her interest is communication and language: the varieties of its substance, the possibility of conversion, its mythological aspect, stereotyping (the question of personal and political self-identification and identification by others), problems of memory, attitudes, and reliance.
Coming a long way from political and cultural journalism, through organizing and curating cultural and art events, Ksenia settled in individual artistic and research practice, which allows the useful critical distance for observation and working with contemporary issues. Her approach is based on methods of language appropriation, over-affirmation, self-reflection and self-criticism through ironic component inevitably added to the most serious matters. Ksenia Yurkova has taken part in numerous shows and festivals worldwide, has released several artist books. Her works are in private collections in Russia, Germany, Austria, France, and Finland.

2023/ 2026 University of Applied Arts Vienna, PhD-in-Practice (Vienna, At)
2016/ 2018 University of the Arts, Academy of Fine Art, MA in Time and Space Art (Helsinki, Fi)
2013/ 2015 Fotodepartament.Institute (St. Petersburg, Ru)
2008/ 2010 Postgraduate, St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Journalism, Theory of Communications Department (St. Petersburg, Ru)
2002/ 2008 graduated with honours St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Journalism, Visual Journalism Department, (St. Petersburg, Ru)

Personal
2022 Degrees, Improper Walls Gallery (Vienna, At)
2018 Spinebone Soup and Stuffed Rabbits. Fotoforum Gallery (Innsbruck, At)
2018 Habitat vol.1. Museum of Impossible Forms (Helsinki, Vantaa, Fi)
2017 Empty Expectations. The Exhibition Laboratory (Helsinki, Fi)
2016 One or Two Approaches to a Landscape (Ólafsfjörður, ISL)

Group
2024/2025 UNFOLD, Fotogalerie Wien (Vienna, At)
2024 Remarkable Meetings with Disgusting Men, W139 (Amsterdam, Nl)
2023 Anerkennungspreise des Landes Niederösterreich 2023, NÖDOK (St. Pölten, At)
2023 Nicht Unser Krieg, Weltkunstzimmer (Düsseldorf, Ge)
2023 Immerse! Tallinn Art Hall (Tallinn, Ee)
2022 Trespassing is Inhabitat, FLUC (Vienna, At)
2022 Fallen wie Kirschblüten,
Hidden Museum (Fraxern, At)
2022 Resolution, FLÜSS, Schloss Wolkersdorf
(Wolkersdorf, At)
2022 Bengali Fire, FLÜSS, Schloss Wolkersdorf
(Wolkersdorf, At)
2021 Photobook Week Aarhus,
Godsbanen (Aarhus, DK)
2021 Photoireland Festival,
Rathfarnham Castle (Dublin, IE)
2021 Parallel Vienna Editions 21 fair,
Semperdepot (Vienna, At)
2021 Q&A. Aa-collections (Vienna, At)
2021 FOR SURE! (Hjalteyri, ISL)
2021 Q&A. aa-collections (Vienna, At)
2020 Kuryohin Prize Exhibition. Kuryohin Centre (St. Petersburg, RU)
2020 Taboo-Transgression-...